About - Lars  Schmid

Lars Schmid was born in 1975. He studied theatre, film and media studies in Frankfurt/Main. Theoretical writings on the management of suspension in urban everyday life. In 2002, co-founder of Red Park performance collective that focuses on artistic research and the development of new forms of combinatory dramaturgies. Performances, shows and lectures of Red Park deal with the construction of subjectivity, the relation between reality and fake, event and simulation. In 2009 Lars Schmid co-founded and ran the BUYDENTITY pop-up stores in Vienna and Frankfurt/Main, which proclaimed: “Stop being yourself. It’s boring”. New fragments of identity like memories, skills and moves could be purchased in the BUYDENTITY stores. In 2010 he founded – together with Jörg Thums – the Institute for Research of Everyday Life.